As a column that called the Wooden Award race over seven weeks, let's just say the Watch understands the irony in what it is about to propose, but still ... that'll do it, right? The first round, we mean? Of the NCAA tournament?
You saw it. You saw what happened. While No. 2 Michigan State was suffering maybe the most unlikely first-round NCAA tournament upset ever (emphasis on maybe), No. 2 Oklahoma was watching its star guard throw up a tidy 27 points on 5-of-8 from 2, 3-of-6 from 3 and 8-of-9 from the stripe against Cal State Bakersfield.